Curtain and shade holder



M. PANZNER.

CURTAIN AND SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION mm NOV. \5. 1920.

1,385,267; Patented July 19,1921.

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MARTIN PANZNER, 0F SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK.

CURTAIN AN D SHADE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15), 1921.

Application filed November 15,1920. Serial No. 424,235.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN limzNnn, a a citizen of the United States, residing at in the county of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain and Shade Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to a combined shade and curtain bracket for window casings.

The object is the production of a device of this character which shall include two parts, oneof which being fixed to the window casing, and the other slid-able through the fixed member, and the securing elements for the fixed member provide means for binding the movable member therein, so that the last mentioned member may be held adjusted, and the said last mentioned member carrying the bracket and the bracket for the shade rollerand the arm supporting the curtain pole. A

A further object is to construct a combined curtain and shade fixture, in which a fixed plate is secured to the trim of a window casing by adjustable means in the nature of ordinary screws, the said plate hav ing its ends formed with guides to receive therethrough the arm of a movable member, said last mentioned member being sustained adjusted with respect to the first mentioned member by a bindin engagement between the members caused y the screwing home of the securing means, the last mentioned or slidable member havin its outer end formed with a spring heat? which exerts a pressure against the trim of the window casing for holding the said member against accidental movement, and the head being formed with the means for supporting the curtain pole and the shade roller.

The foregoing objects, and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, may be accomplished by a construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts such as is illustrated by the drawings which accompany and which form part of this application.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the improvement in applied position on the trim of a window casmg.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale and approximately on the line 2-42 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the fixed sections of the improvement.

A. portion of a window casing is indicated, in the drawings, by the numeral 1. The im provement, of course, comprises two fixtures arranged in opposed relation for su 'iportiug the ends of a curtain roller and the pintles of a shade roller. As each of the fixtures is of a similar construction, except that the bracket portions thereof are one formed with an eye and the other with a slot for the reception of the pintles oi the shade roller, a detailed description of the elements constituting one of the fixtures may be understood as equally applicable to the other fixture.

Each fixture includes a fixed section. The fixed section is in the nature of a comparatively small plate 2 that has its edges centrally provided with outwardly extending ears 3. The ears have apertures therethrough for the reception Off the securing means. The securing means is in the nature of headed screws 4. It will be apparent that by adjusting the screws, the plate or fixed section 2 may be adjusted laterally with respect to the casing 1, to which it is attached. The plate 2 has its edges, adjacent to the ends thereof formed with extensions which are bent upon themselves rearwardly to provide guides 5 for the arm 6 of the adjustable section 7 of the fixture. The arm 6 is snugly received in the guides, and the edges thereof are in the path of contacting engagement with the shanks of the screws. The central portion of the plate 2 will be brought into forcible contact with the arm 6, and the ears will be slightly bent over the edges of the said arm. In addition to this the screws contact with the edges of the arm and will effectively hold the adjustable section 7 properly related to the fixed section. The adjustment is, of course, necessary incident to the employment of different sized shade rollers and curtain poles. On the outer end of the arm 6 of: the adjustable section 7 there is formed a laterally arranged extension which provides a head 8. The head is constructed of resilient material, and is centrally rounded longitudinally to provide the same with an outturned head 9, and a lip 10 disposed outward of the head. The 1p 10 contacts with the trim of the casing and materially assists the binding means carried by the fixed section in preventing accidental movement of the movable section through the fixedsection. In addition to this, the comparatively wide head more effectively reinforces the bracket which receives the shade roller and the arm which receives the curtain pole.

On the inner edge of the head, in a line with the lower edge of the arm of the fixed section there is an outwardly extending plate 11. This plate has an opening 12 therethrough to receive the pintle of a shade roller. The plate, of course, provides the bracket of the construction. On the upper and inner end of the head, in a line with the upper edge of the arm there is an extension 13. To reinforce the same, as well as to provide-the flattened hook-like end which receives the .curtain pole the extension is twisted on itself, as at 1 and from the said twisted portion the extension is rounded downwardly and from thence upwardly to provide the hooklike support 15 for the curtain pole.

It is thought that the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construc tion and advantages of the improvement.

Having described the invention, I claim 1. A fixture for window casings, including a fixed section comprising a plate centrally formed on its edges with outstanding ears in a plane with the body of the plate, inwardly extending flanges providing guides to the opposite sides of the ears, screws passing through the ears and entering the window casing, the movable section including a fiat arm which passes between the guides of the fixed section and has its edges eontacted by the guides and by the screws, and the adjustment of the screws designed to force the ears of the fixed section inwardly with respect to the window casing and to bind the fixed section against the arm of the. movable section.

2. A fixture for window casings, including a fixed section comprising a plate centrally formed on its edges with outwardly extending ears, screws passing through the ears and entering the trim of the window casing, inwardly extended guides on the edges of the plate at the corners thereof, the movable section including an arm which is received through the guides of the fixed section and which has its edges in eiintacting engagement with the securing screws of the fixed section, said movable section having its outer end formed with a lateral extension providing a head, said head being channeled from its inner face to provide an outer bead and a spring rib extending from said bead and in contacting engagement with the trim of the window easing, an outwardly extending right angularly disposedbracket formed on the inner and lower edge of the head, a twisted extension on the upper and inner edge of the head, and said extension terminating in a hook.

In testimony whereof I a'liix my signature.

MARTIN PANZNER. 

